A Critical Examination of Becker's Theory of Social Existence

Using an analytical library-based approach, the present paper critically examines the Becker's theory of social existence. The answers to the questions of the objective existence of social structures and the nature of the relationship between structure and factor form the heart of the theory of social existence. Roy Becker is an Indian philosopher, who proposed a new theory about social existence based on his own philosophical ideas. Using the theoretical framework of fundamental methodology, this paper seeks to explore the fundamental principles of this theory and criticize Becker’s theory of social existence. An examination of the foundations of Becker’s theory reveals the fundamental flaws in the epistemological, ontological and anthropological foundations of this theory; his perspective of the social identity of science and the criterion of truth is fundamentally flawed. His argument concerning the objective existence of structures and the way of the development of social structures into a connective being is open to question, and the idea that the significant relationships represent the identity of man contradicts his other ideas.